Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
Konstadinos "Kostas" Koukodimos is a retired Greek long jumper and New Democracy politician, who served as the mayor of Katerini, Macedonia from 2019 to 2023. He was named the 1991 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. His family has hails from Agios Dimitrios, Pieria.
Cephalonia is a parliamentary constituency returning one MP to the Greek Parliament. It comprises the Cephalonia Prefecture.
The Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow, better known domestically by the acronym ΑΝΤ.ΑΡ.ΣΥ.Α., is a coalition of radical-left political organisations in Greece.
Messenia is a constituency in Peloponnese represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It elects five Members of Parliament (MPs) by the Reinforced proportional representation system of election. It comprises the Messenia Prefecture.
Elis is a constituency in West Greece represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It elects five Members of Parliament (MPs) by the reinforced proportional representation system of election. It comprises the Elis regional unit.
Athens Alpha is a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. In its present form it dates to 1958, when the Athens B constituency was split off, leaving Athens A with the Municipality of Athens. It elects fourteen Members of Parliament (MPs) by reinforced proportional representation.
Athens B was a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It covered a large part of urban area of Athens outside the Municipality of Athens, which forms the Athens A constituency. It was established in 1958, to separate the working-class districts from central Athens and reduce the electoral power of the then United Democratic Left, and was abolished in 2018.
Thessaloniki Alpha is an electoral constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. With an electorate of 531,732 eligible voters (as of 2019) in the urban area of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, it elects sixteen members of parliament.
Piraeus Alpha is a parliamentary constituency in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It elects six Members of Parliament (MPs) by the reinforced proportional representation system of election.
Piraeus B is a Greek election constituency that includes the Piraeus regional unit municipalities and Salamina. Concretely, this constituency includes the municipalities of Keratsini-Drapetsona, Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Renti, Korydallos, Perama and Salamina. It was created for the 1974 Greek parliament elections and currently elects 8 members of parliament. It is one of five electoral constituencies of the Attica region and former prefecture, along with Piraeus A, Athens A and Athens B, and Remainder of Attica. It was established in 1958, primarily to separate the heavily left-voting suburbs of Piraeus from the municipality of Piraeus and diminish the electoral power of the United Democratic Left.
Attica , formerly Remainder of Attica, was an electoral district in the Attica region represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It consisted of East Attica and West Attica and covered all of Attica except for the urban area of Athens, which were covered by the constituencies of Athens A, Athens B, Piraeus A and Piraeus B. It elected fifteen Members of Parliament (MPs). It was abolished in December 2018 and replaced by East Attica and West Attica.
Achaea is a constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. It corresponds to Achaea Prefecture and elects eight members of parliament. The members of the prominent Papandreou politician family come from this constituency.
Thessaloniki Beta is a constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. It comprises Thessaloniki Prefecture except for the urban area of Thessaloniki, which constitutes Thessaloniki A. It elects nine members of parliament.
Chania is a constituency of the Hellenic Parliament. It comprises the Chania Prefecture, and is one of the four constituencies of Crete. It elects four members of Parliament.
Apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament refers to those provisions of the Greek electoral law relating to the distribution of Greece's 300 parliamentary seats to the parliamentary constituencies, as well as to the method of seat allocation in Greek legislative elections for the various political parties. The electoral law was codified for the first time through a 2012 Presidential Decree. Articles 1, 2, and 3 deal with how the parliamentary seats are allocated to the various constituencies, while articles 99 and 100 legislate the method of parliamentary apportionment for political parties in an election. In both cases, Greece uses the largest remainder method.
This is the results breakdown of the European Parliament election held in Spain on 26 May 2019. The following tables show detailed results in each of the country's 17 autonomous communities and in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Dimitris Vitsas is a Greek politician. He was a member of the Syriza party, Minister of Immigration Policy and Deputy Minister of National Defence.
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